Gorseinon
TownTown in Swansea, Wales.
Gorseinon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gorseinon add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Gorseinon, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Gorseinon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Gorseinon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gorseinon at a rate of 56.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 67 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gorseinon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (374), other crime (165) and anti-social behaviour (104).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gorseinon was 59.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Gorseinon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Gorseinon has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Gorseinon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swansea 005B | 1,623 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.9% |
| Swansea 005C | 1,469 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Swansea 005E | 1,384 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% |
| Swansea 005F | 1,529 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Swansea 005G | 1,403 | 168.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.5% |
| Swansea 005H | 1,427 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.2% |
| Swansea 007A | 1,294 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% |
| Swansea 007B | 1,780 | 17.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% |
| Swansea 007C | 1,262 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.2% |
Your MP
- Tonia AntoniazziLabourMP for Gower
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Gorseinon1
Middle areas in Gorseinon1
Towns near Gorseinon6
Gorseinon in brief
Gorseinon is a town in Swansea, Wales.
About 14,538 people lived in Gorseinon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 222 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Gorseinon was £200,000 in 2025.
Gorseinon had 14,114 usual residents at the census.
In Gorseinon, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Gorseinon, 3.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.